Culture and art

Museum

Princes' Islands Museum (Adalar Müzesi)

Adalar, İstanbul

A city museum on Büyükada telling the history, daily life and culture of the Princes' Islands.

Museum

Adana Atatürk House Museum

Seyhan, Adana

A two-story late-19th-century stone mansion where Atatürk stayed on his visits to Adana.

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Adana Museum Complex – Archaeology Museum

Seyhan, Adana

The archaeological heritage of Cilicia in a giant museum complex converted from a former textile factory.

Museum

Adana Cinema Museum

Seyhan, Adana

A museum in an old Adana house telling the story of cinema and literary figures from Adana, from Yılmaz Güney to Yaşar Kemal.

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Adnan Menderes Democracy Museum

Koçarlı, Aydın

A museum in the historic mansion at Çakırbeyli telling the life and times of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes.

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Aphrodisias Museum

Karacasu, Aydın

The site museum displaying works of the Aphrodisias school of sculpture and the Sebasteion reliefs.

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Afyonkarahisar Museum

Merkez, Afyonkarahisar

The provincial museum, founded in 1933 and moved to its new building in 2023; rich in works from the Paleolithic to Byzantium and Kusura idols.

House museum

Ağırnas Mimar Sinan House

Melikgazi, Kayseri

A historic building in Ağırnas in the Koramaz Valley, restored as the house where Mimar Sinan was born; around it are tunnels and rock-cut spaces.

Museum

Ahlat Museum

Ahlat, Bitlis

A museum displaying archaeological finds from Ahlat and its surroundings from the Chalcolithic to the Ottoman period, examples of Seljuk gravestones and the memory of the city.

Cultural center

Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts Center

Konak, İzmir

One of the city's main stages, in Güzelyalı, named after the İzmir-born composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun, with a 1,153-seat acoustic concert hall.

Museum

Ahmed Arif Literature Museum Library

Sur, Diyarbakır

A courtyard mansion museum-library dedicated to the poet Ahmed Arif, displaying his personal belongings and handwritten poems.

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Ahmet Hamdi İshakoğlu Natural Life Museum

Çayeli, Rize

A private museum with wooden architecture, telling the story of 20th-century daily life in and around Çayeli through objects and re-creations.

Museum

Ahmet Piriştina City Archive and Museum

Konak, İzmir

A museum in the old fire station building telling İzmir's urban history through photographs, maps and documents.

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Akhisar Museum

Akhisar, Manisa

An archaeology and ethnography museum opened in 2012 in a former hospital building dated 1932, opposite the Thyateira site.

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Aksaray Museum

Merkez, Aksaray

A regional museum spanning the Neolithic to the Ottoman period, with finds from the Aşıklı Höyük, Acemhöyük and Güvercinkayası excavations.

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Akşehir Nasreddin Hoca Archaeology and Ethnography Museum

Akşehir, Konya

A museum dedicated to Nasreddin Hoca, displaying archaeological and ethnographic works of the Akşehir area from the Neolithic to the Ottoman period.

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Alaçam Population Exchange Museum

Alaçam, Samsun

A thematic ethnography museum displaying the belongings, documents and photographs of the exchangees who settled in and around Alaçam with the 1923 population exchange.

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Alagöz Headquarters Museum

Sincan, Ankara

The village house used as the Western Front Headquarters and Atatürk's headquarters during the Battle of Sakarya.

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Alanya Archaeological Museum

Alanya, Antalya

An archaeology and ethnography museum opened in 1967, known for works such as a Phoenician inscription and a bronze statue of Herakles.

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Ali Fuat Paşa Kuvâ-yı Milliye Museum

Geyve, Sakarya

A museum in the building used as headquarters by Ali Fuat Paşa, commander of the Western Front in the War of Independence.

Museum

Altınköy Open-Air Museum

Altındağ, Ankara

An open-air museum recreating Anatolian village life of the 1930s–1950s with its mill, school, village coffeehouse and houses.

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Amasra Museum

Amasra, Bartın

A museum displaying archaeological and ethnographic objects from the Hellenistic to the Ottoman period, in a listed building begun in 1884 as a naval school.

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Amasya Darüşşifa and Sabuncuoğlu Museum of the History of Medicine

Merkez, Amasya

A darüşşifa built in 1308–1309, the only surviving Ilkhanid building; today the Sabuncuoğlu Museum of the History of Medicine and Surgery.

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Amasya Museum

Merkez, Amasya

Amasya's archaeology museum, known for its artifacts from eleven civilizations and the Ilkhanid-era mummies displayed in the tomb in its garden.

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Museum of Anatolian Civilizations

Altındağ, Ankara

An archaeology museum housed in the Mahmut Paşa Bedesten and Kurşunlu Han, presenting Anatolian civilizations in chronological order from the Paleolithic to the Ottomans.

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Anadolu University Museum of Republican History

Odunpazarı, Eskişehir

A museum of the National Struggle and Republican era in the building designed by Mimar Kemalettin in 1915–1916 as the Turan Numune Mektebi.

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Anamur Museum

Anamur, Mersin

A district museum displaying works from the Anemurium excavations and local ethnographic objects.

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Ankara Ethnography Museum

Altındağ, Ankara

A museum in an elegant Republican-era building on Namazgâh Hill displaying Anatolian clothing, crafts and objects of daily life.

Museum

Ankara Air Force Museum

Etimesgut, Ankara

The Air Force museum in Etimesgut on the İstanbul Road, displaying combat aircraft outdoors and the history of Turkish aviation in indoor halls.

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Ankara Palas Ethnography Museum

Nazilli, Aydın

An early Republican hotel building on Nazilli's station boulevard; today a city museum.

Museum

Ankara Painting and Sculpture Museum

Altındağ, Ankara

A museum of Turkish painting and sculpture from the late Ottoman period to the present, in the historic building constructed in 1927 as the Turkish Hearths Headquarters.

Museum

Antalya Atatürk House Museum

Muratpaşa, Antalya

The two-story house on Atatürk Avenue where Atatürk stayed during his visit to Antalya from 6 to 11 March 1930.

Cultural center

Antalya Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM)

Muratpaşa, Antalya

A cultural center in Atatürk Culture Park that has hosted opera, ballet, theater and festivals since 1996.

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Antalya Mevlevihane (Mevlevi Lodge Museum)

Muratpaşa, Antalya

A historic Mevlevi lodge within the Yivli Minaret complex, serving as a museum since 2018.

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Antalya Museum

Muratpaşa, Antalya

One of Turkey's largest archaeology museums, with works from the Lycian, Pamphylian and Pisidian civilizations.

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Antalya Toy Museum

Muratpaşa, Antalya

A municipal museum in a historic han at Kaleiçi Marina displaying toys from the 1860s to the 1990s.

Museum

Ardahan Congress Building (Congress and City Museum)

Merkez, Ardahan

A historic mansion bearing traces of Baltic architecture that hosted the Ardahan congresses of January 1919; now open to visitors as the Congress and City Museum.

House museum

Aşiyan Museum

Beşiktaş, İstanbul

Poet Tevfik Fikret's house on the Rumelihisarı slope; a literature museum with Bosphorus views.

House museum

Âşık Veysel Museum (Sivrialan)

Şarkışla, Sivas

A museum set up in the house where the folk minstrel Âşık Veysel was born in the village of Sivrialan, known for its 'Dark Room' section.

Museum

Aslan Torunlar House Ethnography Museum

Merkez, Sinop

An ethnography museum in a large 18th-century mansion, displaying clothing, household items and crafts from daily life in Sinop.

Museum

Atatürk Memorial Museum

Şahinbey, Gaziantep

A memorial museum opened in a restored historic Antep house in the Bey neighborhood, where Atatürk was registered in the population records in 1933.

House museum

Atatürk House Museum

Meram, Konya

A two-story historic building from 1912 where Atatürk stayed on his visits to Konya; a house museum displaying his personal belongings.

House museum

Atatürk House Museum (Atatürk Forest Farm)

Yenimahalle, Ankara

A museum at Atatürk Forest Farm in an exact-scale replica of the house in Thessaloniki where Atatürk was born.

Museum

Atatürk Residence and Railway Museum

Altındağ, Ankara

The Direksiyon building in Ankara Station, used by Atatürk as residence and headquarters during the War of Independence, and a railway museum.

House museum

Atatürk Mansion (Atatürk Köşkü)

Ortahisar, Trabzon

A Renaissance-influenced mansion in a pine grove on the Soğuksu ridge; in 1937 Atatürk made his decision here to donate his property to the nation.

House museum

Atatürk Pavilion (Termal)

Termal, Yalova

A pavilion museum next to the Termal hot springs, built for Atatürk in 1929 and used by him for rest.

Cultural center

Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM)

Beyoğlu, İstanbul

An opera, theater and concert complex on Taksim Square, rebuilt and opened in 2021.

House museum

Atatürk Museum (Şişli)

Şişli, İstanbul

The wooden house in Şişli where Atatürk stayed with his mother and sister in 1918–1919; a museum with his personal belongings.

Museum

Hagia Irene (Aya İrini)

Fatih, İstanbul

A Byzantine church in the first courtyard of Topkapı Palace, known for its plain apse cross from the Iconoclast period.

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Aydın Archaeological Museum

Efeler, Aydın

The provincial museum displaying sculptures, coins and ethnographic items from Tralleis, Magnesia, Nysa and surrounding excavations.

Museum

Ayşe Sıdıka Erke Ethnography Museum

Edremit, Balıkesir

A museum in a traditional house in Edremit displaying 18th–19th-century Edremit domestic life and a Kuva-yi Milliye room.

Museum

Baksı Museum

Merkez, Bayburt

A museum in the village of Bayraktar, on a hill overlooking the Çoruh Valley, bringing together contemporary art and traditional handicrafts; winner of the 2014 Council of Europe Museum Prize.

Museum

Balıkesir Kuva-yi Milliye Museum

Karesi, Balıkesir

A museum on the city's history and the region's archaeological finds, in the historic mansion where the decision for armed resistance was made during the National Struggle.

Museum

Balıkesir National Photography Museum

Karesi, Balıkesir

Türkiye's first photography museum, opened in 2006, with historic cameras, a darkroom and a photography library.

Museum

Bandırma Archaeology Museum

Bandırma, Balıkesir

A museum displaying artifacts from the ancient cities of the southern Marmara, above all Kyzikos and Daskyleion.

House museum

Barış Manço House

Kadıköy, İstanbul

Musician Barış Manço's house in Moda; a house museum with his belongings, costumes and awards.

Museum

Bartın City Museum

Merkez, Bartın

A city museum in an 1885 former school and municipal building, telling Bartın's 4000-year history and daily life.

House museum

Western Front Headquarters Museum

Akşehir, Konya

A historic building used as the Western Front Headquarters between November 1921 and August 1922, where the plans for the Great Offensive were prepared.

Museum

Batman Museum

Merkez, Batman

An archaeology museum opened in 2015, bringing together finds from the Ilısu Dam rescue excavations and the re-creations of the Museum Park in its garden.

Museum

Bayazhan Gaziantep City Museum

Şahinbey, Gaziantep

A city museum in the Bayaz Han, built in 1909, telling the city's history and its crafts.

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Bergama Museum

Bergama, İzmir

A long-established museum displaying sculptures and finds from excavations at Pergamon, Allianoi and the surrounding area.

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Beypazarı City History Museum

Beypazarı, Ankara

A city museum in a restored Beypazarı mansion, presenting the district's daily life, crafts and traditions.

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Bitlis Ethnography Museum

Merkez, Bitlis

A museum in the former governor's mansion, built of Ahlat stone, displaying Bitlis's weaving, copperwork, clothing and handicraft culture and finds from the castle excavations.

Museum

Boğatepe Cheese Museum

Merkez, Kars

A village museum founded in 2010 in an old dairy building in the village of Boğatepe, known for gruyère cheesemaking, presenting local cheese production.

Museum

Boğazköy Museum

Boğazkale, Çorum

A museum displaying works found in the Hattusa excavations and the two Hittite sphinxes returned from Berlin; the starting point of a tour of the archaeological site.

Museum

Bolu Museum

Merkez, Bolu

The provincial museum displaying, in two halls, archaeological works recovered from Bolu and its surroundings and a collection of local ethnography.

Museum

Bolvadin Museum (Yanık Kışla)

Bolvadin, Afyonkarahisar

A municipal museum in the historic "Yanık Kışla" building, displaying archaeological and ethnographic items together.

Museum

Bostanlı Open-Air Archaeology Museum

Karşıyaka, İzmir

A small open-air museum in Bostanlı displaying sarcophagi, column capitals and sculptures.

Museum

Bozcaada Local History Museum

Bozcaada, Çanakkale

A private museum telling the island's history of winemaking, seafaring and daily life through postcards, maps and objects.

Museum

Burdur Natural History Museum

Merkez, Burdur

A museum displaying Pleistocene fossils, above all the southern mammoth found at Elmacık in Kemer district.

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Burdur Museum

Merkez, Burdur

An award-winning archaeology museum with a rich collection ranging from the Hacılar and Kuruçay mounds to Sagalassos and Kibyra.

Museum

Burhaniye Kuva-yi Milliye Culture Museum

Burhaniye, Balıkesir

A museum displaying finds from Adramytteion in an 18th-century building used as a headquarters during the War of Independence.

Museum

Bursa Archaeology Museum

Osmangazi, Bursa

A museum in Kültürpark displaying finds from the mounds and ancient cities around Bursa.

House museum

Bursa Atatürk Museum

Osmangazi, Bursa

A late 19th-century mansion set in a garden, where Atatürk stayed on his visits to Bursa.

Museum

Bursa City Museum

Osmangazi, Bursa

A museum in the old courthouse building in Heykel telling the story of Bursa's history, crafts and daily life.

Museum

Museum of Contemporary Glass Art

Odunpazarı, Eskişehir

Türkiye's first glass art museum; works by Turkish and foreign artists in a building created by joining three Odunpazarı houses.

House museum

Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Museum

Sur, Diyarbakır

A Diyarbakır courtyard house dated 1733, divided into seasonal sections, where the poet Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı was born.

Museum

Çamlık Steam Locomotive Museum

Selçuk, İzmir

Türkiye's largest open-air railway museum, home to one of the most comprehensive steam locomotive collections in Europe.

Museum

Çanakçılar Archaeology and Ethnography Museum

Gökçebey, Zonguldak

A private museum in Gökçebey displaying a collection of archaeological and ethnographic artifacts.

Museum

Çanakkale Epic Promotion Center

Eceabat, Çanakkale

A visitor center at Kabatepe presenting the 1915 battles through reenactment halls and visual storytelling.

Museum

Çanakkale City Museum and Archive

Merkez, Çanakkale

A municipal museum in a 19th-century bazaar building telling the story of the city's daily life, trade and memory.

Museum

Çankırı Museum

Merkez, Çankırı

The provincial museum in the Old Government House, displaying 8-million-year-old fossils, archaeological finds and local ethnography.

Museum

Cemil Meriç Museum

Reyhanlı, Hatay

A memorial museum set up in the house where the thinker and writer Cemil Meriç was born.

Museum

Cemil Paşa Mansion (City Museum)

Sur, Diyarbakır

A 42-room basalt mansion with harem and selamlık sections; today used as the Diyarbakır City Museum.

Gallery

CerModern

Altındağ, Ankara

An art center converted from 1920s railway maintenance workshops, known for its contemporary art exhibitions and events.

House museum

Cevdet Sunay Museum

Çaykara, Trabzon

The village house where Cevdet Sunay, Türkiye's 5th President, was born, restored and turned into a house museum in 2001.

Museum

Çine Beekeeping Museum

Çine, Aydın

A museum on the history, tools and products of beekeeping, founded through university and municipal cooperation.

Museum

Çine Kuva-yı Milliye Museum

Çine, Aydın

A museum in a historic building from the reign of Abdülhamid II, telling of the region's resistance in the War of Independence.

Museum

Çorlu Yılmaz Büyükerşen Wax Museum

Çorlu, Tekirdağ

Wax figures of more than 110 famous names from art, politics and literature, in a historic building dated 1903.

Museum

Çorum Museum

Merkez, Çorum

The provincial museum displaying finds from Alacahöyük, Hattusa and Shapinuwa, in a historic building built as a hospital in 1914.

Museum

Cumhuriyet Müzesi (Republic Museum, Second Parliament Building)

Altındağ, Ankara

The second parliament building, designed by architect Vedat Tek, which housed the Grand National Assembly of Turkey from 1924 to 1960.

Museum

Cunda Taksiyarhis Church (Rahmi M. Koç Museum)

Ayvalık, Balıkesir

A monumental building constructed in 1873 as the island's metropolitan church and opened as a museum in 2014 after restoration.

Culture and art

Demirci Carpet Weaving

Demirci, Manisa

The centuries-old handmade carpet tradition of Demirci, which also wove carpets for the Ottoman palaces.

Cultural center

Dengbêj House

Sur, Diyarbakır

A historic house in Sur where dengbêjs gather, opened to keep alive the dengbêj tradition of oral narrative and song.

Museum

Denizli Atatürk and Ethnography Museum

Merkezefendi, Denizli

A museum in a 19th-century Denizli house displaying Atatürk's belongings and the region's dress and domestic culture.

Museum

Denizli City Museum

Pamukkale, Denizli

A museum opened in 2024 in early Republican-era stone workshop buildings, telling Denizli's story from prehistory to today.

Museum

Dikyamaç Village and Surroundings Lifestyle Museum

Arhavi, Artvin

An ethnography museum in Arhavi's Dikyamaç village telling the story of Eastern Black Sea village life through the everyday objects and clothing of local people.

Museum

Diyarbakır Archaeological Museum

Sur, Diyarbakır

A museum in historic buildings in İç Kale displaying finds from regional excavations, from Körtik Tepe to Zerzevan.

House museum

Dumlupınar Atatürk Headquarters House

Dumlupınar, Kütahya

A faithful reconstruction of the house Gazi Mustafa Kemal used as his headquarters during the Great Offensive.

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Edirne Museum

Merkez, Edirne

East of the Selimiye; archaeology and ethnography collections spanning Thrace from prehistory to the Ottomans.

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Ephesus Museum

Selçuk, İzmir

A museum in central Selçuk displaying sculptures, Artemis statues and everyday objects from excavations at Ephesus and its surroundings.

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Elazığ Archaeology and Ethnography Museum

Merkez, Elazığ

An archaeology, ethnography and carpet-kilim museum on the Fırat University campus, opened in 1982 with finds from the Keban and Karakaya dam rescue excavations.

Museum

Emine Göğüş Cuisine Museum

Şahinbey, Gaziantep

A museum in the historic Göğüş İbrahim Efendi Mansion presenting the ingredients, tools and cooking methods of Gaziantep cuisine.

Museum

Erimtan Archaeology and Arts Museum

Altındağ, Ankara

A private archaeology museum at the foot of the castle presenting a collection of coins, seals, jewelry and ceramics from the Hittites to Byzantium in a modern display.

Museum

Erzincan Museum

Merkez, Erzincan

The provincial museum displaying, in its new building opened in 2023, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts from the Paleolithic to the Ottoman period, finds from Altıntepe and a section on the city's earthquake history.

House museum

Erzurum Atatürk House Museum

Yakutiye, Erzurum

A historic mansion where Mustafa Kemal Paşa and his companions stayed and worked for 52 days during the Erzurum Congress of 1919, a museum since 1984.

Museum

Erzurum Museum

Yakutiye, Erzurum

The city museum, in its new building next to the Üç Kümbetler since 2023, known for artifacts from the Chalcolithic Age to the Republic and its mammoth fossil.

Museum

Eskişehir Eti Archaeology Museum

Odunpazarı, Eskişehir

A museum displaying Prehistoric, Phrygian, Roman and Byzantine works from the province's excavations, from Demircihöyük to Pessinus.

Museum

Eşme Kilim Museum

Eşme, Uşak

A district museum displaying examples of the geographically indicated Eşme-Yörük kilims.

Cultural center

Estergon Kalesi Turkish Culture Center

Keçiören, Ankara

A cultural center in Keçiören inspired by Estergon Castle in Hungary, with ethnography exhibits and Turkish gardens.

House museum

Evliya Çelebi House Museum (Culture and Art House)

Merkez, Kütahya

A historic Kütahya house believed to have belonged to the family of the traveler Evliya Çelebi, restored and turned into a museum.

Museum

Ferhat and Şirin Lovers Museum

Merkez, Amasya

A themed museum next to the Ferhat Water Channel telling famous love stories, above all that of Ferhat and Şirin.

Museum

Fethiye Mosque (Pammakaristos)

Fatih, İstanbul

A mosque converted from the church of the Pammakaristos Monastery, with a museum section displaying 14th-century Byzantine mosaics in its side chapel.

Museum

Galata Mevlevi Lodge Museum (Galata Mevlevihanesi)

Beyoğlu, İstanbul

İstanbul's first Mevlevi lodge; a complex that keeps Mevlevi culture alive with its semahane, tombs and museum.

Museum

Gazi Alemdar Ship Museum

Ereğli, Zonguldak

A museum ship with a replica of the tug Alemdar, which evaded a French warship to carry supplies to the front in the War of Independence.

Museum

Gazi Museum (Mıntıka Palas)

İlkadım, Samsun

The former Mıntıka Palas hotel where Mustafa Kemal stayed when he landed at Samsun on 19 May 1919; today a museum displaying Atatürk's belongings.

Museum

Gaziantep Archaeological Museum

Şehitkamil, Gaziantep

A museum displaying Gaziantep's archaeological finds from the Paleolithic to the Ottoman period, renewed and reopened after the earthquake.

Museum

Gaziantep Pistachio Museum

Şahinbey, Gaziantep

The world's first pistachio museum, telling the history, harvest and varieties of the Antep pistachio in a pistachio-shaped building.

Museum

Gaziantep Mevlevi Lodge Foundation Museum

Şahinbey, Gaziantep

A museum in the Antep Mevlevi Lodge, built in 1638, displaying Mevlevi culture and foundation works.

Museum

Gaziantep Games and Toys Museum

Şahinbey, Gaziantep

A municipal museum in a historic stone house in the Bey neighborhood, displaying traditional and old toys.

Museum

Gevher Nesibe Şifahiyesi (Museum of Seljuk Civilization)

Kocasinan, Kayseri

Founded in 1206 by the will of Gevher Nesibe Sultan, one of Anatolia's first medical schools and hospitals; today the Museum of Seljuk Civilization.

Museum

Giresun Museum (Gogora Church)

Merkez, Giresun

A free museum in the 19th-century Gogora Church, displaying archaeology from the Bronze Age to Byzantium and Ottoman ethnography.

Culture and art

Gördes Carpet Weaving

Gördes, Manisa

The Gördes carpet-weaving tradition, continuing since the 17th century, which gave its name to the double knot in Anatolian carpets.

Museum

Gordion Museum and Midas Tumulus

Polatlı, Ankara

A museum displaying finds from the Gordion excavations and, opposite it, the Midas Tumulus with its preserved wooden burial chamber.

Museum

Göreme Open-Air Museum

Merkez, Nevşehir

Cappadocia's best-known monastic settlement, with rock-carved, fresco-decorated churches, chapels and refectories; the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Museum

Güpgüpoğlu Mansion Ethnography Museum

Melikgazi, Kayseri

One of the finest examples of Kayseri's historic mansion architecture, with an ethnography museum in its selamlık section and a 'museum house' in its harem section.

Museum

Hacı Bektaş Veli Museum (Dervish Lodge)

Hacıbektaş, Nevşehir

The 13th-century dervish lodge housing the tomb of Hacı Bektaş Veli; a museum since 1964 and the most important pilgrimage center of the Alevi-Bektashi faith.

Museum

Haleplibahçe Mosaic Museum

Eyyübiye, Şanlıurfa

A museum displaying in situ, under a protective structure, the 'Hunting Amazons' and 'Life of Achilles' mosaics on the floor of a Roman villa.

Cultural center

Haller Youth Center (Haller Gençlik Merkezi)

Tepebaşı, Eskişehir

A culture and arts center dominated by wood and wrought iron, created by restoring the historic Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Market building.

Museum

Hammam Museum

Şahinbey, Gaziantep

A themed museum in the Paşa Hammam, built by Lala Mustafa Paşa in 1577, presenting Ottoman hammam culture through re-creations.

Museum

Hasan Süzer Ethnography Museum

Şahinbey, Gaziantep

An ethnography museum in a historic Antep house in the Bey neighborhood, displaying the city's traditional life and everyday objects.

Museum

Hasankeyf Museum

Hasankeyf, Batman

A museum in the Culture Park in new Hasankeyf displaying about 4,000 artifacts from the Ilısu Dam rescue excavations; an ideal first stop in the area.

Festival grounds

Hasanpaşa Yünümböget Shepherds' Festival

Tefenni, Burdur

A shepherds' festival of about 800 years, held in late August–early September, celebrating the return of the flocks to their owners.

Cultural center

Haşim İşcan Cultural Center

Muratpaşa, Antalya

The shared stage of the Antalya State Opera and Ballet and the State Theater.

Museum

Hatay Archaeology Museum

Antakya, Hatay

A museum with one of the world's richest mosaic collections; closed since the 6 February earthquakes, with a gradual reopening planned.

House museum

Havza Atatürk House Museum

Havza, Samsun

The former Mesudiye Hotel where Mustafa Kemal stayed from 25 May to 13 June 1919; the first headquarters of the War of Independence, now a free museum.

House museum

Hazeranlar Mansion Ethnography Museum

Merkez, Amasya

An Ottoman mansion built in 1865 in Yalıboyu, today visited as an ethnography museum and art gallery.

Museum

Hierapolis (Pamukkale) Archaeology Museum

Pamukkale, Denizli

A museum in the Roman bath of Hierapolis displaying sculptures, sarcophagi and reliefs from the cities of the Lykos valley.

Museum

Hopa Culture House and Museum

Hopa, Artvin

A culture house and museum in a restored 19th-century Laz house in Hopa, displaying about 5000 ethnographic objects reflecting local life.

Museum

İkizevler City Museum

Merkez, Gümüşhane

A city museum in a historic Gümüşhane mansion, telling the story of traditional home life through room arrangements and ethnographic works.

Gallery

İlhan Koman Sculpture and Painting Museum

Merkez, Edirne

A university art museum on the Karaağaç Campus displaying works donated by hundreds of contemporary artists.

Museum

İmren Erşen Oya Museum

Odunpazarı, Eskişehir

A museum in the historic Sivrioğulları Mansion displaying nearly six thousand oya (needle lace) pieces collected across Anatolia by painter İmren Erşen.

Museum

İnciraltı Museum Ships

Balçova, İzmir

A naval museum in İnciraltı where the submarine TCG Pirireis and the frigate TCG Ege can be toured as museums.

Museum

İnönü Battles Headquarters Museum

İnönü, Eskişehir

A museum in the house used as headquarters during the Battles of İnönü by İsmet Paşa, Commander of the Western Front.

Museum

İskenderun Naval Museum

İskenderun, Hatay

A museum displaying works on the naval forces and the history of the port of İskenderun in a historic building on Atatürk Bulvarı.

Museum

İstanbul Archaeological Museums

Fatih, İstanbul

Türkiye's first and richest museum complex, made up of the Archaeological Museum, the Museum of the Ancient Orient and the Tiled Kiosk.

Museum

İstanbul Naval Museum

Beşiktaş, İstanbul

Türkiye's largest naval museum, with Ottoman imperial caiques and an extensive collection on maritime history.

Museum

İstanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam

Fatih, İstanbul

A museum in the stables building in Gülhane Park, telling the history of science and technology in the Islamic world through models and replicas.

Museum

İstanbul Modern

Beyoğlu, İstanbul

An art museum on the Karaköy quay displaying a collection of modern and contemporary Turkish art, which moved to its new building in 2023.

Museum

İzmir Archaeology Museum

Konak, İzmir

A museum in Bahribaba Park displaying sculptures, sarcophagi and finds from the ancient cities of İzmir and its surroundings.

Museum

İzmir Atatürk Museum

Konak, İzmir

A 19th-century mansion on the Kordon where Atatürk stayed on his visits to İzmir.

Museum

İzmir Ethnography Museum

Konak, İzmir

A museum in a former hospital building bringing to life İzmir's customs, traditions and crafts.

Museum

İzzet Koyunoğlu City Museum

Karatay, Konya

A city museum and old Konya house displaying the archaeological, ethnographic and natural history objects collected by a Konya resident over his lifetime.

Museum

Kadirli City Museum

Kadirli, Osmaniye

A district museum introducing the history of Kadirli, the Karatepe area and local culture.

Museum

Caucasian Front War History Museum (Kanlı Tabya)

Merkez, Kars

An interactive museum in Kanlı Tabya, built in the 19th century to defend Kars, telling the story of the Caucasian Front and the Sarıkamış Operation through re-creations.

Museum

Kahramanmaraş Archaeology Museum

Dulkadiroğlu, Kahramanmaraş

The region's archaeology museum, with Late Hittite stelae, the Germanicia mosaics and an elephant skeleton; the collection was moved after the earthquake and its status varies.

Museum

Kaman Kalehöyük Archaeology Museum

Kaman, Kırşehir

A museum opened in 2010 in the village of Çağırkan, displaying works of seven civilizations found in the Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology's Kalehöyük excavations.

Museum

Kandilli Observatory

Üsküdar, İstanbul

Türkiye's earthquake monitoring center, founded in 1911; an observatory museum in its historic hilltop buildings.

Museum

Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Ottoman Culture House

Ortahisar, Trabzon

A historic house in Ortahisar, where Kanuni was born, displaying wax figures of Ottoman sultans and items on Trabzon's history.

Museum

Karacasu Ethnography Museum

Karacasu, Aydın

A district museum showcasing Karacasu's weaving, pottery, blacksmithing and leather crafts.

Museum

Karadeniz Ereğli Museum (Halil Paşa Mansion)

Ereğli, Zonguldak

A museum in the late 19th-century Halil Paşa Mansion, holding artifacts from Herakleia Pontike to the Ottoman period and the funerary monument of Krispos.

Museum

Karagöz Museum

Osmangazi, Bursa

A museum presenting the Karagöz and Hacivat tradition, believed to have been born in Bursa, through figures, screens and performances.

Museum

Karakoyunlu Ram-Headed Gravestones Open-Air Museum

Karakoyunlu, Iğdır

An open-air museum bringing together ram-headed gravestones going back to the Karakoyunlu period, characteristic of the old cemeteries of the Iğdır Plain.

Museum

Karaman Museum

Merkez, Karaman

A museum behind the Hatuniye Madrasa displaying archaeological and ethnographic works of the Karaman region from the Epipaleolithic to the Ottoman period.

Museum

Karatepe-Aslantaş Open-Air Museum

Kadirli, Osmaniye

One of the world's leading open-air museums, in the fortress of the Late Hittite king Azatiwada, with bilingual inscriptions and gate orthostats with reliefs.

Museum

Kars Museum

Merkez, Kars

A regional museum displaying archaeological artifacts from the Paleolithic to the Ottoman period collected from the region, especially the Ani excavations, as well as Caucasian ethnography.

Museum

Kastamonu Archaeology Museum

Merkez, Kastamonu

A museum displaying works from the Hittites to the Ottomans in a historic building designed by the architect Kemaleddin, where Atatürk gave a speech in 1925.

House museum

Kaymakamlar House Museum (Kaymakamlar Gezi Evi)

Safranbolu, Karabük

A museum house showing on site the room layout, furnishings and daily life of a traditional Safranbolu house.

Museum

Kayseri Archaeology Museum

Melikgazi, Kayseri

A museum displaying chronologically, in its new building inside Kayseri Castle, works from the Chalcolithic Age to the Ottoman period and the Kültepe finds.

House museum

Kayseri Atatürk House Museum

Melikgazi, Kayseri

A 19th-century mansion, also known as the İmamzade Raşit Ağa Mansion, where Mustafa Kemal stayed two nights on 19–20 December 1919.

House museum

Kemal Samancıoğlu Ethnography Museum

Merkez, Bartın

An ethnography museum set up in the wooden house where Kemal Samancıoğlu, one of Bartın's former mayors, was born and lived.

Museum

Kenan Yavuz Ethnography Museum

Demirözü, Bayburt

An award-winning private ethnography museum in the village of Beşpınar (Loru), keeping rural life alive with village houses, mills, a mansion and open-air exhibition areas.

Museum

Kilis Museum

Merkez, Kilis

An archaeology and ethnography museum in the Neşet Efendi Mansion, built in 1927, with exhibits ranging from Oylum Höyük finds to ethnographic artifacts.

Museum

Kırklareli Museum

Merkez, Kırklareli

A city museum in the former municipal building dated 1894, with natural history, Thracian archaeology and ethnography sections.

Festival grounds

Kırkpınar Wrestling Arena

Merkez, Edirne

The arena at Sarayiçi where the Kırkpınar Oil Wrestling, regarded as one of the world's oldest sporting events, is held every summer.

Museum

Kırşehir Museum

Merkez, Kırşehir

The provincial museum, renovated through Turkish–Japanese cooperation and opened in 2010, displaying finds from Kalehöyük, Yassıhöyük and Büklükale and an Ahilik section.

Museum

Koca Seyit Onbaşı Museum

Havran, Balıkesir

A museum dedicated to the memory of Gallipoli hero Seyit Onbaşı in Kocaseyit (formerly Çamlık), the village where he was born; his grave is also in the village.

Museum

Kocaeli Archaeology and Ethnography Museum

İzmit, Kocaeli

A city museum displaying sculptures and reliefs from ancient Nicomedia alongside local ethnographic artifacts.

Cultural center

Konakaltı Han Cultural Center

Menteşe, Muğla

A two-story historic caravan han with galleries in central Muğla, restored and converted into a cultural center.

Museum

Konuralp Museum

Merkez, Düzce

Düzce's museum, displaying the Orpheus mosaic, a Roman sarcophagus and statues from the ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium, together with the region's ethnography.

Museum

Konya Archaeology Museum

Meram, Konya

One of Anatolia's first archaeology museums, founded in 1899; known for its Roman-period sarcophagi and Çatalhöyük finds.

Museum

Konya Ereğli Museum

Ereğli, Konya

A museum displaying finds from Ereğli and its surroundings from the Neolithic to the Ottoman period, and the Late Hittite stele from İvriz.

Museum

Konya Ethnography Museum

Meram, Konya

An ethnography museum dating from 1975, displaying the carpets and kilims, clothing, jewelry and everyday items of Konya and its surroundings.

House museum

Kossuth House Museum

Merkez, Kütahya

The 18th-century Kütahya house where the Hungarian freedom leader Lajos Kossuth lived in exile in 1850–51.

Culture and art

Kültürpark

Konak, İzmir

A city park founded in 1936 on the area devastated by the 1922 fire, also home to the İzmir International Fair.

Museum

Liberation Museum (Kurtuluş Müzesi)

Odunpazarı, Eskişehir

A museum telling the story of the War of Independence interactively, in the Mestanoğlu Halil Mansion where İsmet İnönü stayed during the First Battle of İnönü.

Museum

Kurtuluş Savaşı Müzesi (War of Independence Museum, First Parliament Building)

Altındağ, Ankara

The first parliament building, where the Grand National Assembly of Turkey opened on 23 April 1920; today a museum on the War of Independence period.

Museum

Kuruköprü Memorial Museum and Traditional Adana House

Seyhan, Adana

An ethnography museum opened in a former Greek church, telling the story of the life of the Çukurova and Taurus Yörüks.

Museum

Kütahya Archaeology Museum (Vacidiye Madrasa)

Merkez, Kütahya

An archaeology museum in the Vacidiye Madrasa, built in 1314 in the Germiyanoğulları period.

Museum

Kütahya Tile Museum

Merkez, Kütahya

A museum displaying centuries of Kütahya tile-making in the soup kitchen built by the Germiyan Bey Yakup Bey II in 1411.

Museum

Kütahya City History Museum

Merkez, Kütahya

A museum of the city's memory, created by combining two historic mansions on Germiyan Sokağı.

House museum

Latife Hanım Mansion Memorial House

Karşıyaka, İzmir

A memorial house in the Latife Hanım family's summer mansion in Karşıyaka, where Zübeyde Hanım spent her last days.

Museum

Museum of Lycian Civilizations

Demre, Antalya

An archaeology museum in the Roman granary at Andriake, telling the history of Lycia.

Museum

Liva Paşa Mansion Ethnography Museum

Merkez, Kastamonu

An ethnography museum in the three-story Liva Paşa Mansion dated 1887, displaying Kastamonu's urban life and the wooden door of the Kasaba Mosque.

Museum

Meerschaum Museum (Lületaşı Müzesi)

Odunpazarı, Eskişehir

A museum within the Kurşunlu Complex displaying pipes and artworks made of meerschaum, the symbol of Eskişehir.

Museum

M.S.Ö. Air and Space Museum

Sivrihisar, Eskişehir

An aviation museum at the Sivrihisar Aviation Center, known as the 'Flying Museum' for its airworthy historic aircraft.

Museum

Malatya Archaeological Museum

Battalgazi, Malatya

A museum in Kernek displaying finds from Arslantepe and the Karakaya Dam rescue excavations, renewed after the earthquake and reopened in August 2026.

House museum

Malatya Atatürk House and Ethnography Museum

Battalgazi, Malatya

A memorial house and ethnography museum in a cut-stone building in the First National Architectural style, used by Atatürk during his visits to Malatya in 1931 and 1937.

Museum

Malatya Camera Museum

Yeşilyurt, Malatya

A large camera collection museum on Sanat Sokağı, displaying more than two thousand cameras from 1876 to the present.

Museum

Malatya Radio and Gramophone Museum

Yeşilyurt, Malatya

A municipal museum in a two-story building in the style of a traditional Malatya house, displaying in chronological order radios and gramophones more than a century old.

Museum

Manisa Museum

Yunusemre, Manisa

An archaeology and ethnography museum displaying finds from Sardis, Magnesia and the surrounding districts, which moved to its new building in 2025.

Museum

Mardin Museum

Artuklu, Mardin

A museum displaying the region's archaeological and ethnographic works in the former Syriac Catholic Patriarchate building dated 1895.

Museum

Museum of Innocence (Masumiyet Müzesi)

Beyoğlu, İstanbul

A small, original museum in Çukurcuma made up of objects from Orhan Pamuk's novel of the same name.

House museum

Mehmet Akif Ersoy House Museum (Taceddin Dergâhı)

Altındağ, Ankara

The house museum in the Taceddin Dergâhı where Mehmet Âkif Ersoy stayed during the War of Independence and wrote the İstiklal Marşı (National Anthem).

Museum

Mersin Archaeology Museum

Yenişehir, Mersin

The city's main museum, displaying Cilicia's finds from prehistory to Byzantium, from Yumuktepe to Soli.

Museum

Mersin Atatürk House Museum

Akdeniz, Mersin

A historic mansion built in the late 19th century where Atatürk stayed on his visits to Mersin, which can be visited today as a museum.

Gallery

Mersin State Fine Arts Gallery

Akdeniz, Mersin

A state gallery opened in a historic Mersin house, hosting contemporary painting and sculpture exhibitions.

Museum

Mersin City History Museum

Akdeniz, Mersin

A museum telling, with photographs, documents and objects, the story of Mersin's transformation from a small landing stage into a major port city.

Cultural center

Mersin Cultural Center (Halkevi / People's House)

Akdeniz, Mersin

A building opened as a People's House in 1946, used today as an opera and cultural center.

Festival grounds

Mesir Macunu Festival

Şehzadeler, Manisa

A traditional festival reenacting Merkez Efendi's healing of Hafsa Sultan with mesir paste, in which the paste is scattered to the crowd from the Sultan Mosque.

Cultural center

Mevlâna Cultural Center

Karatay, Konya

A large culture and performance center where a sema ceremony is held every Saturday evening, hosting the Şeb-i Arûs ceremonies.

Museum

Mevlâna Museum

Karatay, Konya

The former Mevlevi lodge containing the tomb of Mevlânâ Celâleddîn-i Rûmî (Rumi); a free museum that is the symbol of Konya with its green dome.

Museum

Midyat City Museum (Estel Han)

Midyat, Mardin

A three-story historic han in Estel, restored in 2021 and turned into a city museum displaying works of Midyat culture.

Museum

Midyat Filigree (Telkari) Museum

Midyat, Mardin

A municipal museum presenting telkari, the fine silver wirework identified with Midyat's Syriac craftsmen, with a production workshop.

Museum

Milas Museum

Milas, Muğla

A museum displaying finds from Stratonikeia, Iasos, Beçin and Hydai, along with examples of local carpets.

Museum

Miletus Museum

Didim, Aydın

An archaeology museum beside the site, displaying finds from the Miletus, Didyma and Priene excavations.

Museum

Miniature Amasya Museum

Merkez, Amasya

A 300 m² model of Amasya in the imaret of the II. Bayezid Complex, based on a photograph from 1914.

Museum

Miniature Liberation Museum

Onikişubat, Kahramanmaraş

A museum inside the castle re-creating Maraş's 1920 Liberation Struggle with miniature figures.

Museum

MKE Silahsan Weapons Museum

Merkez, Kırıkkale

A special museum on the grounds of the MKE Weapons Factory, displaying Ottoman and European-made weapons from the 15th to the 20th century.

Museum

MTA Şehit Cuma Dağ Natural History Museum

Çankaya, Ankara

A museum on the campus of the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration presenting the earth sciences through fossils, minerals and dinosaur reconstructions.

House museum

Mudanya Armistice House Museum

Mudanya, Bursa

The seaside mansion where the 1922 Armistice of Mudanya, which ended the armed phase of the War of Independence, was signed.

House museum

Muratlı Atatürk House

Muratlı, Tekirdağ

A single-story house keeping alive the memory of Atatürk's 1936 visit to Muratlı to inspect immigrant housing.

Museum

Muş Museum (Atatürk City Museum)

Merkez, Muş

The provincial museum opened in 2021 in the former Atatürk Primary School building completed in 1938, with archaeology, ethnography and Battle of Malazgirt halls.

House museum

Namık Kemal House

Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ

A three-story, timber-style house museum devoted to the life and works of the Tekirdağ-born 'poet of the homeland' Namık Kemal.

Museum

Narlıdere Culture House (Historic Cemevi)

Narlıdere, İzmir

A museum in a historic cemevi building dated 1874, presenting the traditions of the Tahtacı Turkmens.

Museum

Narlıkuyu Mosaic Museum

Silifke, Mersin

A small museum where the 'Three Graces' mosaic of a Roman bath is preserved in situ.

Museum

Necmi Asfuroğlu Archaeology Museum

Antakya, Hatay

A museum built over an excavation site, displaying one of the world's largest single-piece floor mosaics; it came through the earthquake with little damage and has reopened.

Cultural center

Nihat Zeybekci Congress and Culture Center

Pamukkale, Denizli

A large congress and culture center of Denizli Metropolitan Municipality with halls of various sizes and a planetarium.

Museum

Nilüfer Hatun İmaret

İznik, Bursa

A zaviye-imaret built in 1388 in the name of Nilüfer Hatun, mother of Murad I, and used for many years as the İznik Museum.

Museum

Ödemiş Museum

Ödemiş, İzmir

A museum displaying archaeological finds from Hypaipa and nearby excavations alongside the region's ethnographic heritage.

Museum

Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM)

Odunpazarı, Eskişehir

A contemporary art museum opened in 2019, designed with wooden beams by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.

Museum

Oleatrium Olive and Olive Oil Museum

Kuşadası, Aydın

An olive museum explaining olive oil production techniques from antiquity to today through original equipment.

Museum

Ortahisar Ethnography Museum

Ürgüp, Nevşehir

The area's first ethnography museum, open since 2004, bringing Cappadocian village life to life with mannequins.

House museum

Osman Hamdi Bey Museum

Gebze, Kocaeli

The summer house in Eskihisar of the painter and archaeologist Osman Hamdi Bey; a museum telling the story of his paintings and life.

Museum

Osmaniye City Museum

Merkez, Osmaniye

A city museum on Karaoğlan Caddesi telling the story of the city's history and daily life.

House museum

Ottoman House Museum

Osmangazi, Bursa

A house museum in the historic streets of Muradiye showing the layout and decoration of a 17th-century Bursa house.

Museum

Panorama 1326 Bursa Conquest Museum

Osmangazi, Bursa

A museum that brings to life Orhan Gazi's capture of Bursa in 1326 with a giant 360-degree panoramic painting.

Museum

Panorama 1453 History Museum

Zeytinburnu, İstanbul

A history museum that brings the 1453 conquest to life with a giant 360-degree panoramic painting and sound effects.

Museum

Panorama 25 December Gaziantep Defense Heroism Panorama and Museum

Şahinbey, Gaziantep

A municipal museum in the former Ayntâb Redif Depot near the castle, telling the story of the defense of Antep with a panorama, maps and documents.

Museum

Panorama Konya Museum

Karatay, Konya

A municipal museum telling the story of 13th-century Konya and the turning points in Rumi's life with a 360-degree dome panorama.

Museum

Paşaoğlu Mansion Ethnography Museum

Altınordu, Ordu

Ordu's grandest mansion, built in 1896, with painted wooden ceilings and a tiled hamam; toured as the Ethnography Museum.

Museum

Pera Museum

Beyoğlu, İstanbul

A private museum known for its Orientalist painting collection and Osman Hamdi Bey's 'The Tortoise Trainer'.

Museum

Piri Reis Museum (Gelibolu)

Gelibolu, Çanakkale

A small museum in a historic tower on Gelibolu harbor about Piri Reis, the great navigator and cartographer raised in the town.

Museum

Prof. Dr. Turan Yazgan Ethnography (Carpet and Kilim) Museum

Merkez, Isparta

A multi-story ethnography museum at the entrance to the Gökçay Recreation Area, displaying thousands of traditional carpets and kilims.

Museum

Rahmi M. Koç Museum

Beyoğlu, İstanbul

An industrial museum on the Golden Horn displaying vehicles, ships, aircraft and machines from the history of transport, industry and communications.

Museum

Rahmi M. Koç Museum (Çengelhan)

Altındağ, Ankara

A museum in the 16th-century Çengelhan opposite Ankara Castle that presents the history of transport, industry and communication in an interactive way.

House museum

Rákóczi Museum

Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ

A museum in the house where the Hungarian national hero Ferenc Rákóczi II lived in exile from 1720 to 1735.

House museum

Rize Atatürk House Museum

Merkez, Rize

The three-story Mataracı Mansion, where Atatürk stayed during his visit to Rize in 1924, serving as a museum since 1985.

Museum

Rize Museum

Merkez, Rize

A city museum in a traditional 19th-century Rize mansion, displaying archaeological artifacts, coins and local ethnographic items.

Museum

Sadberk Hanım Museum

Sarıyer, İstanbul

Türkiye's first private museum, displaying archaeological artifacts and Ottoman clothing and embroidery in waterside mansions in Büyükdere.

Museum

Safranbolu City History Museum

Safranbolu, Karabük

A museum in the former Government House on the Kale hill, telling the story of Safranbolu's urban history and crafts.

Museum

Şahinbey National Struggle Museum

Şahinbey, Gaziantep

A museum telling the story of the defense of Antep with weapons, period items and documents, part of which is in a cave used as a shelter during the war.

House museum

Sait Faik Abasıyanık Museum

Adalar, İstanbul

The wooden house on Burgazada where the short-story writer Sait Faik Abasıyanık lived; a museum with his belongings and manuscripts.

Museum

Sakarya Earthquake Museum

Adapazarı, Sakarya

A museum founded to raise earthquake awareness in Adapazarı, which was heavily damaged in the 1999 Marmara earthquake.

Museum

Sakarya Museum

Adapazarı, Sakarya

A museum in central Adapazarı displaying the province's archaeological finds and ethnographic artifacts.

Museum

Sakıp Sabancı Mardin City Museum

Artuklu, Mardin

A city museum and art gallery in former cavalry barracks dated 1889, telling Mardin's urban history and multicultural daily life.

Museum

Sakıp Sabancı Museum

Sarıyer, İstanbul

A private museum in the Atlı Köşk in Emirgan, known for its calligraphy collection and international exhibitions.

Museum

Samsun City Museum

İlkadım, Samsun

A city museum in former railway buildings dating from 1928, telling the story of Samsun's history, culture and daily life through thematic areas.

Museum

Samsun Museum

İlkadım, Samsun

The largest museum in the Black Sea Region, with the Amisos mosaic and Amisos Treasure; archaeology and ethnography in its new wave-shaped building.

Museum

Şanlıurfa Archaeology and Mosaic Museum

Eyyübiye, Şanlıurfa

One of Türkiye's largest museums, with finds from Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe, the 'Balıklıgöl Statue', considered the world's oldest life-size human statue, and re-creations.

Museum

santralistanbul Energy Museum

Eyüpsultan, İstanbul

An energy museum and campus converted from Silahtarağa, the first Ottoman urban power plant.

Museum

Saraydüzü Barracks National Struggle Museum

Merkez, Amasya

A National Struggle museum in the faithfully reconstructed Saraydüzü Barracks, Atatürk's headquarters in Amasya, where the Amasya Circular was written.

House museum

Satı Kadın Museum

Kahramankazan, Ankara

A house museum in Kahramankazan in the home of Satı Çırpan, one of Turkey's first women members of parliament.

House museum

Şebinkarahisar Atatürk House and Museum

Şebinkarahisar, Giresun

A two-story timber-framed house museum where Atatürk stayed in 1924, with items from the period and an Atatürk library.

Museum

Şefik Gül Culture House

Merkez, Elazığ

A culture house next to the Harput Ulu Mosque, created by restoring a late-18th-century mansion, presenting Harput life and music.

Museum

Şehzadeler Museum (Museum of the Princes)

Merkez, Amasya

A wooden museum building at the head of the Alçak Bridge, with statues of the Ottoman princes who served as governors in Amasya and objects from their era.

Museum

SEKA Paper Museum

İzmit, Kocaeli

A museum in the historic buildings of SEKA, Türkiye's first paper factory, telling the story of papermaking and industrial memory.

Cultural center

Şelale Education Park Planetarium and Observatory

Tuzla, İstanbul

The region's first public planetarium, opened in Tuzla in 2017, with a 10-meter planetarium and an observatory with a 35 cm telescope.

House museum

Şemaki House Museum

Yenişehir, Bursa

A traditional Ottoman house in Yenişehir, famed for its painted decoration dating to the 18th century.

Museum

Side Museum

Manavgat, Antalya

A museum established by restoring a Roman bath complex, displaying finds from the Side excavations.

Museum

Silifke Museum

Silifke, Mersin

An archaeology and ethnography museum displaying statues, coins and ceramics from the ancient cities of the region.

Museum

Sinop Archaeological Museum

Merkez, Sinop

A museum displaying artifacts from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman period from excavations in and around Sinop, with the remains of a temple of Serapis in its garden.

Museum

Sivas Archaeology Museum

Merkez, Sivas

A collection ranging from fossils to Hittite, Roman, Seljuk and Ottoman works, in a building built in 1914 as an industrial school.

Museum

Sivas Atatürk and Congress Museum

Merkez, Sivas

A museum set up in the former Sivas High School building where the Sivas Congress of 4–11 September 1919 convened.

Museum

Söğüt Ertuğrul Gazi Museum

Söğüt, Bilecik

A museum in Söğüt displaying documents, coins and ethnographic artifacts from the Ottoman founding period.

House museum

Şuhut Atatürk House (Great Offensive Headquarters)

Şuhut, Afyonkarahisar

The historic house Atatürk used as temporary headquarters just before the Great Offensive; a museum since 2004.

Museum

Şükrü Paşa Monument and Balkan Wars Museum

Merkez, Edirne

The memorial tomb of Şükrü Paşa, commander of the defense of Edirne, and the Balkan Wars Museum in the Kıyık Redoubt.

Museum

Süleyman Demirel Museum of Democracy and Development

Atabey, Isparta

A museum within the complex in İslamköy, displaying gifts and documents from Süleyman Demirel's political life.

Museum

Sultan Dîvânî Mevlevîhâne Museum

Merkez, Afyonkarahisar

A museum in the dervish lodge founded by Ulu Ârif Çelebi in 1316, which became one of the important centers of the Mevlevi order.

Museum

Sultan Bayezid II Complex Health Museum

Merkez, Edirne

An award-winning health museum in the hospital of the Bayezid II Complex on the Tunca, telling of treatment through music and the sound of water.

Museum

Suna-İnan Kıraç Kaleiçi Museum

Muratpaşa, Antalya

A private ethnography and art museum in a restored Orthodox church and a traditional Kaleiçi house.

Culture and art

Süreyya Opera House

Kadıköy, İstanbul

An opera house with an Art Deco facade on Bahariye Caddesi, opened in 1927 as the first musical theater on the Asian side.

Museum

Tahtakuşlar Ethnography Gallery

Edremit, Balıkesir

A private museum on the culture of the Tahtacı Turkmens, founded in 1991 and known as 'Türkiye's first village museum'.

Museum

Taksiyarhis Memorial Museum

Ayvalık, Balıkesir

The former Taksiyarhis Church in central Ayvalık, restored and opened as a museum in 2013.

Museum

Historic Laundry Museum

Merkez, Çankırı

A building constructed in 1885 and used until 1980, known as Turkey's largest historic laundry.

Museum

Historic Sinop Prison

Merkez, Sinop

A historic prison built within the fortress walls, known as 'the Alcatraz of Anatolia', converted into a museum after it closed in 1999.

Museum

Tarsus Museum

Tarsus, Mersin

A district museum displaying works from Gözlükule and the surrounding excavations.

Cultural center

Taş Mektep (Hacı Taşan Art House)

Keskin, Kırıkkale

A historic school building made of red Ankara stone; today used as an art house in the name of the folk poet Hacı Taşan.

Museum

Taşucu Aslan Eyce Amphora Museum

Silifke, Mersin

A private museum displaying amphorae from different periods recovered from the Mediterranean.

Museum

Tayfun Talipoğlu Typewriter Museum

Odunpazarı, Eskişehir

Türkiye's first typewriter museum, displaying typewriters belonging to famous names in the restored Şamlıoğlu Mansion.

Museum

TCG Yarhisar Ship Museum

Gölcük, Kocaeli

A retired Turkish Naval Forces patrol boat on the Gölcük waterfront, converted into a museum ship.

Museum

Tekfur Palace Museum

Fatih, İstanbul

A museum adjoining the land walls, a rare surviving example of Byzantine palace architecture, displaying works from Ottoman tile workshops.

Museum

Tekirdağ Archaeology and Ethnography Museum

Süleymanpaşa, Tekirdağ

In the former Governor's Mansion; Thracian finds from the Bronze Age to the Ottomans and an ethnography collection.

Museum

Terzizade Mansion Museum

Havran, Balıkesir

A roughly 200-year-old, three-story wooden mansion in Havran where Atatürk met Koca Seyit Onbaşı, restored and turned into a museum.

Museum

Tire Museum

Tire, İzmir

A museum founded in 1935 displaying Roman-period sculptures and mosaics and the mangır coins of the Ottoman Tire mint.

Museum

Tofaş Anatolian Carriages Museum

Yıldırım, Bursa

A museum in a former silk factory displaying horse-drawn carriages, phaetons and traditional Anatolian vehicles.

House museum

Tokat Atatürk House and Ethnography Museum

Merkez, Tokat

The house where Atatürk and Latife Hanım stayed as guests in 1925; today the Atatürk House and Ethnography Museum.

Museum

Tokat Mevlevi Lodge Foundation Museum

Merkez, Tokat

A three-story Mevlevi lodge founded in the 17th century, renovated in baroque style in the 19th century and visited today as a Foundation Museum.

Museum

Tokat Museum (Arastalı Bedesten)

Merkez, Tokat

A free museum in the 9-domed Arastalı Bedesten, with a collection ranging from Hittite finds from Maşathöyük to a Qur'an from the Danishmendid period.

Museum

Topkapı Palace

Fatih, İstanbul

The palace that was the seat of government and residence of the Ottoman sultans for about four centuries, now a museum toured through its courtyards, pavilions and treasures.

Museum

Trabzon Muhibbi Literature Museum Library

Ortahisar, Trabzon

A museum-library in a historic mansion overlooking the Zağnos Valley, displaying the works and belongings of writers from the region.

Museum

Trabzon Museum (Kostaki Mansion)

Ortahisar, Trabzon

The provincial museum, displaying archaeological and ethnographic artifacts in an early 20th-century banker's mansion with hand-painted walls.

Museum

Trabzonspor Şamil Ekinci Museum

Ortahisar, Trabzon

A club museum displaying Trabzonspor's championship trophies and the famous 'half cup'.

Museum

Troy Museum

Merkez, Çanakkale

A contemporary rust-colored cube-shaped museum at the entrance to the Troy site, displaying thousands of artifacts from the Troad region.

Museum

Tunceli Museum

Merkez, Tunceli

A museum introducing Tunceli, opened in 2020 in a historic barracks building from 1935–1937, with halls on archaeology, ethnography, faith culture and recent history.

Museum

TÜRASAŞ Devrim Cars Museum

Odunpazarı, Eskişehir

A museum within the railway factory displaying Devrim, the first domestic car, and Karakurt, the first domestic locomotive.

Museum

Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art (Yeşil Madrasa)

Yıldırım, Bursa

A museum in the madrasa of the Yeşil Complex displaying tiles, manuscripts, costumes and Karagöz figures.

Museum

Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts

Fatih, İstanbul

One of the most important museums of Islamic art, with carpet, manuscript, tile and ethnography collections displayed in the İbrahim Paşa Palace.

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Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art

Merkez, Edirne

A museum in the madrasa rooms of the Selimiye Complex displaying Ottoman-era crafts, calligraphy and Kırkpınar memorabilia.

Museum

Tuzla City and Population Exchange Museum

Tuzla, İstanbul

A museum on Tuzla's city history and the population exchange, opened in a rebuilt historic building popularly known as the 'Perili Köşk' (Haunted Mansion).

Museum

Ulucanlar Prison Museum

Altındağ, Ankara

A historic prison that operated from 1925 to 2006, converted into a museum bearing witness to recent political and literary history.

House museum

Ünye Living Cultural Heritage (Ünye House)

Ünye, Ordu

The Living Cultural Heritage museum in a restored traditional wooden house in central Ünye, reflecting old Ünye home life.

Museum

Uşak Archaeology Museum (Croesus Treasure)

Merkez, Uşak

A modern museum on the old station site displaying the Lydian-period Karun (Croesus) Treasure, brought back from abroad.

Museum

Uşak Atatürk and Ethnography Museum

Merkez, Uşak

A museum in the mansion Atatürk used as his headquarters during the War of Independence and where he received Trikoupis.

Museum

Uşak City History Museum

Merkez, Uşak

A city museum in a restored historic building telling the social and economic past of Uşak, the 'City of Firsts'.

Museum

Uzungöl Dursun Ali İnan Museum

Çaykara, Trabzon

A private museum in Uzungöl telling the story of the region's culture through a local wooden house, ethnographic items and tree-root sculptures.

Museum

Van Museum

İpekyolu, Van

A museum displaying one of the world's richest Urartian collections and the Hakkari stelae in its new building beside Van Castle.

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Yakutiye Madrasa (Museum of Turkish-Islamic Arts and Ethnography)

Yakutiye, Erzurum

A madrasa built in the Ilkhanid period in 1310, famous for the tree of life and lion reliefs on its portal, now used as the Museum of Turkish-Islamic Arts and Ethnography.

Museum

Yalova City Museum

Merkez, Yalova

A city museum telling Yalova's history from antiquity to the Republic, and its memory of migration and earthquake.

Museum

Yalvaç Museum

Yalvaç, Isparta

An archaeology museum displaying sculptures, inscriptions and coins from the Pisidian Antioch excavations.

Museum

Seven Fine Men (Yedi Güzel Adam) Literature Museum

Dulkadiroğlu, Kahramanmaraş

A literature museum in the old high school building where Cahit Zarifoğlu, Erdem Bayazıt and Rasim Özdenören studied; heavily damaged in the earthquake, it is being rebuilt.

Museum

Yılmaz Büyükerşen Wax Museum

Odunpazarı, Eskişehir

Türkiye's first wax museum; statues of historic and contemporary figures made by the former mayor Yılmaz Büyükerşen.

Museum

Yörük Ali Efe Museum

Yenipazar, Aydın

The museum holding the grave of Yörük Ali Efe, one of the first resistance fighters of the War of Independence in the Aegean.

Museum

Yozgat Museum (Nizamoğlu Mansion)

Merkez, Yozgat

In the wooden Nizamoğlu Mansion built in 1871; archaeology on the lower floor and Yozgat ethnography on the upper floor.

House museum

Yürüyen Köşk (Walking Pavilion)

Merkez, Yalova

A pavilion moved a few meters on rails at Atatürk's wish to save a branch of a plane tree.

Museum

Zafer (Victory) Museum

Merkez, Afyonkarahisar

The building that served as Mustafa Kemal Paşa's headquarters after the Great Offensive, where the plans for the Battle of the Commander-in-Chief were made.

Museum

Zeki Müren Art Museum

Bodrum, Muğla

A memorial museum in the Bodrum house where Zeki Müren, the 'Sun of Art', spent his last years.

Museum

Zelve Open-Air Museum

Avanos, Nevşehir

A rock village spread over three valleys on the slopes of Aktepe, inhabited until the 1950s; an open-air museum with fairy chimneys, a rock mosque and dovecotes.

Museum

Zeugma Mosaic Museum

Şehitkamil, Gaziantep

One of the world's foremost mosaic museums, displaying mosaics from the ancient city of Zeugma, including the famous 'Gypsy Girl', in an exhibition of about 1,700 m².

House museum

Ziya Gökalp Museum

Sur, Diyarbakır

A two-story basalt Diyarbakır house where the sociologist and writer Ziya Gökalp was born in 1876, a museum since 1956.

Museum

Zonguldak Mining Museum and Coal Experience Mine

Merkez, Zonguldak

Türkiye's first hard-coal mining museum; its 'Coal Experience Mine', set up in an old training mine, lets visitors experience what being a miner means.